Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
First, gather all of the ingredients together.
Next, prepare the ingredients by roughly chopping the shrimp and finely chopping the rocket, garlic and chilli. You can also peel off strips of the cucumber skin to be decorative.
Next, cut the cucumber into the sizes you require for the pots and slice one end off as a base. Next, remove the seeds from the centre of the cucumber by pressing through with your finger.
Now, clarify the butter by firstly melting in a pan and leaving aside for 5 minutes.
Gently pour off the butter oil leaving the sediment at the bottom of the pan.
Now, add the shrimp to the clarified butter and heat through on low heat.
Add the chilli and garlic.
Once heated through strain off the shrimp, chilli and garlic so that you have two separate bowls of ingredients.
Add the chopped rocket to the shrimp.
Now, stuff the cucumber with the shrimp mixture and press down.
Drizzle the clarified butter over the shrimp and leave to set in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
Once set the cucumber potted shrimp are ready to serve. Very simple and very tasty. Yum!